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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

bd_8a3219281af49f40 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 15, 2016

Filed

Sep 1, 2016

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

833state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants2 incidents on file

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants notified South Carolina residents of a malware incident affecting payment card processing servers at the Hotel Lumen. Unauthorized charges were reported on July 15, 2016. Malware captured track data (card numbers, expiration dates, verification codes) from February 16 to July 7, 2016. The incident was resolved, law enforcement was notified, and forensic firms were engaged.

Incident timeline

undetected · 150 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Feb 16, 2016

Begins

Jul 15, 2016

Discovered

Sep 1, 2016

Filed

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 15d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGAug 31 · first
Massachusetts State AGAug 31 · first
California State AGAug 31 · first
Washington State AGAug 31 · first
Oregon State AGAug 31 · first
Montana State AGAug 31 · first
South Carolina State AG+1d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 31 (NH), last Sep 16 (NH) — a 16-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.